Long Beach is one of the older, more established communities on Long Island. Founded in 1880 when the first Long Beach Hotel was built, it continued to grow at a steady pace (the railroad arrived in 1882 promoting Long Beach as a resort community for vacationers). The major attraction in its development was the fact that Long Beach is an oceanfront island along Long Island’ s south shore which has a moderating effect on its climate. Long Beach averages 10 degrees warmer in the winter and 10 degrees cooler in the summer than inland communities on Long Island and New York City. With the ocean on one side and the bay on the other, Long Beach developed as a seaside community.
— Source http://www.longbeachny.org/
Clinging to the southwest corner of Nassau, Long Beach can lay claim to being among Long Island’s oldest and newest discoveries at the same time
— Source Newsday
Few pictures of the beach, on a beautiful late September evening in 2005.
